Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions

by Karmen MacKendrick, Mark D. Jordan, Virginia Burrus

Book Overview

Augustine's Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? Here three scholars who share a longstanding fascination with sexuality and Christian discourse attempt to do just that. Where prior interpreters have been inclined either to defend or to criticize Augustine's views, Virginia Burrus, Mark Jordan, and Karmen MacKendrick set out both to seduce and to be seduced by his text. Often ambivalent but always passionately...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823231933
• ISBN13: 9780823231935
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"